Ever since I've been making my own bread I've been dying to make a fruit bread. Yesterday was the day, but I couldn't find a fruit bread recipe in my cookbooks, so I just used the Edmond's Hot Cross Bun Recipe...but I forgot that last time I made it up it didn't rise well, which I put down to my yeast...not this time, yeast was fresh with the last groceries, its just the recipe I've decided. So after leaving it most of the day to rise and it not getting far, I gave it its punch down and knead, divided it into four equal parts, kneaded again and rolled into long sausages. Once I had done that with all four, I put them on a floured baking tray and plaited them together. Something went wrong with my plait at the start but it came right after that. Baked it for 30min like I do my white bread and then glazed it with the Hot Cross Bun glaze.
It looks good, tastes ok. Its a bit dense. But then I toasted it this morning, and apart from losing a couple of wee bits in the toaster, it tastes almost like bought fruit bread...but better, because I made it.
I am going to hunt out a better recipe though and try again...or modify my white bread recipe which doesn't seem to fail and try that as a fruit bread.
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